After wasting upwards of $40 MILLION dollars in taxpayer money... the negro center for "we can do it too"-proves they can't.

By Mark Belko / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

"Dollar Bank intends to foreclose on the August Wilson Center for African American Culture in October if no deal is reached to sell the building.
Eric Schaffer, Dollar's attorney, told Judge Lawrence O'Toole of Allegheny County Common Pleas Orphans' Court today that the bank, which holds the center's delinquent mortgage, will schedule a sheriff sale for Oct. 6.
That puts pressure on court-appointed conservator Judith Fitzgerald to conclude a sale to New York developer 980 Liberty Partners, which has offered $9.5 million for the building.
Mr. Schaffer made his comments at the end of a 90-minute hearing this morning during which the city's Urban Redevelopment Authority tried to make the case that deed restrictions prevent the Downtown building from being used for anything but an African-American cultural center and also prevent the property's exterior from being altered without its consent."

"By the time the center opened in September 2009, costs had risen to $42 million. That price tag was roughly 27 percent over its 2003 budget of $33 million. That earlier amount included $3.5 million from the city, $2.5 million from Allegheny County and $10 million from the state. It was completed with a $11.2 million loan from a bank consortium."